Word: bede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nessie," said Sir David, "must be thousands of years old and belongs to the postglacial period. . . . He is so tame I expect little trouble in bringing him home. In fact I have invited the boys of St. Bede's Roman Catholic College in Manchester to join me in the monster hunt...
...hoboes. There were hundreds of celebrities, like the Brazilian Ambassador, Post master General Farley, Marshall Field, Cinemactress Constance Bennett, who emerged from 250 private railroad cars and made their way to shabby old Churchill Downs. At the track Owner Widener shared his box with bright-eyed Sir Bede Clifford, Governor-General of the Bahamas, believing he had never before had so good a chance to win a Derby...
From the Coast Guard cutter Potomac somewhere in the Bahamas last week, President Roosevelt dispatched two invitations by wireless. One went to the Hon. Sir Bede (pronounced Beedy) Clifford, His Majesty's Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Nassau, to have lunch next day aboard the Potomac. The other went to the White House staff and correspondents twiddling their thumbs in Miami. Would they like to see what President Roosevelt looked like after a week...
...fish he did not recognize and was taking it back on ice to have the Smithsonian Institution tell him what it was. Where would the President cruise next? Off Tongue-of-Ocean.* To fish for sharp campaign words? "Barracuda words," retorted the President. At this capital reply, Sir Bede was stitched with laughter...
...installed on short order by Sedgwick Machine Works of Poughkeepsie so that the President can go below decks if he wishes. Then the press flew back to Miami taking with them Uncle Frederick A. Delano and leaving the President to voyage to the fishing grounds recommended by Sir Bede...